CreamyGoodness Celery Mead questions ...?

[porcupine73]

Hi CreamyGoodness, I've seen you mention a few times about your celery mead. .. please share some tips on making this mead? It sounds very interesting! Thank you.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

The recipe I used was simple.

1 liter of water
1 pound honey
1 heaping tablespoon whole celery seed
25 raisins
leaves of one bunch of celery, chopped
1 teaspoon bread yeast

I made this in a 1 liter vodka bottle with an improvised airlock, and gave it 6 months ferment/clearing and aging time .

 

[porcupine73]

Great thanks I'll give it a try. That's roughly what I envisioned, except I didn't even think of celery seed, that definitely sounds good. Hm finding the leaves of a bunch of celery around here is going to be difficult, all the stores have only the tasteless stalks of celery completely stripped of all the tasty leaves.

 

[bconstant]

This doesn't taste too vegetably? I infused vodka with celery to use in cocktails and drinking the vodka straight tastes downright awful.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

The seeds give it an odd almost chocolaty taste. I suppose you could use a stalk chopped in a pinch...

 

[porcupine73]

I'm going to guess the fermentation alters and maybe smooths out the celery flavor to a degree, so it would probably taste quite a bit different than an infusion, especially after it ages out.